Improvement in pen and pencil cases



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Pen and PenciI-Eases.

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VILLIAM A. LUDDEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT In PEN Ano PENCIL CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. ELQiM), dated May 26, 1874; application led February 19, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LUDDEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pen and Pencil Gases, of which the following is a specification Pencil-cases have been made with one tub/ef sliding inside the other, and by drawingeut the tube at one end the pencil is projected at the other by a screw-actioii, there ,being onel cylinder inside the other, and slotted in a screw-form. My improvementrelates to a pen and pencilcase combined, in which the pencil is projected at one end by slidin the band and pen-holder toward the other end.

In the drawing', Figure 1 is a section of the exterior case andan elevation of the interior screw-tubes, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section in larger size..

rIhe pen-holder a is of usual character and soldered to the screw-tube b, and these can be moved endwise in the case c by the exterior ring or band a that is connected with the holder a by screws or pins passing through the longitudinal slot in the case c. The screwtube c slides freely within the screw-tube b, and there is a pin, 2, upon the tube c that enters the screwslot in b, so that the tube c is revolved by the endwise movement ot' the tube b. This tube c is free to revolve within the band z', that is soldered or otherwise fastened at the pencil end ofthe case c. rIhis band preventsthe tube c moving endwise. Tithin the tube e is a third tube, o, that is slotted lengthwise, and its enlarged inner end ll slides wi thin the tube b, said tube b being corrugated and the head 4 ofthe tube o fitting the saine, so that it will not revolve fas the tube b is moved endwise, and the intermediate tube c revolves. Upon the inner cylindrical portion of the ever-pointed pencil l is a pin, 3, passing through and guided by the longitudinal slot in the tube o, and entering the screw-slot in c. The screw-slots in b and e being inclined in opposite directions the pencil l will be projected from one end of the case c as the pen is projected from the other.

I am aware that the pencil has been projected at one end simultaneously with the extension of the case effected by drawing out the tube containing the pen 5 the pen-slide and pen, however, had to be projected separately by hand. In my case the pencil is projected at one end by the act of moving the pen-holder at the other end, and the case itselt is not eX- tended.

I claim as my invention* The pen-holder a upon the screw-tube b, connected to the baud a outside the slotted case c, in combination with the screw-tube c, slotted tube o, and pencil Z, substantially as set forth, whereby the pencil is projected by the act of projecting the pen.

Signed by me this 17th day of February, A. D. 1874.

IVM. A. LUDDEN.

IVitnesses:

Gno. T. PINCKNEY, Gries. I-I. SMITH. 

